Ups and Downs: Does the American Economy Still Promote Upward Mobility?

Examines trends in absolute intragenerational mobility by analyzing short- and long-term income fluctuations from 1967-2004, rates of recovery from declines, recovery time, and rates of gains compared with those of declines

Alignment of online Health & Human Ecology course

Project: To Design, Develop and align my Online Course, to meet CSUSB General Learning Outcomes (GLOs), Program (Department) Learning Outcomes (PLOs), Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs), and Module Learning Outcomes (MLOs) for meeting our Student learning Outcomes (SLOs). Resources used, Academic Technologies & Innovations’ (ATI’s) Course Alignment and Development Worksheet, and Cal State University’s’ (CSU’s), Quality Learning &Teaching (QLT) and Quality Matters (QM) Objectives (Instrument/table). Product: My NSCI 351, Health & Human Ecology, was designed for both the Quarter and Semester Systems; using Modules (MLOs), aligned with the Course (CLO), and Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) for each of my ten (10) modules. The Activities were aligned with GLOs, CLOs, MLOs and SLOs, to be integrative, meaningful, stimulating students’ thoughtful analysis, which is relevant to each student’s learning experience. My goal for teaching effectiveness; to design each module that build on learning, using many pedagogies which lead to student’s growth and understanding of our place in the World. My teaching strategies are student-centered, culturally aware, and globally minded

Alien Registration- Scott, Rose (Presque Isle, Aroostook County)

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Communicationists and Un-Artists: Pedagogical Experiments in California, 1966-1974

A network of experimental workshops, classes, and schools foregrounding interdisciplinary, non-hierarchical, and process-based approaches to teaching and learning emerged in coastal California between 1966 and 1974. These initiatives embodied a new pedagogical approach that I call “communication pedagogy,” in which students were taught to exchange ideas and collaborate, rather than to produce objects. Analyzing three central case studies, Anna and Lawrence Halprin’s Experiments in Environment workshops, Ant Farm’s proposals for learning networks, and Allan Kaprow’s ‘Happenings’ course, I argue that communication pedagogy helped to foster a new paradigm for artistic practice: the artist as facilitator and network-creator. By the mid-1970s the new pedagogy had lost traction in educational institutions—the economic crisis caused severe budget cuts, resulting in restrictions to experimental curriculum. However, I posit that, far from becoming obsolete, the communicator-artist was a precursor to the neoliberal model of the network-driven worker and communication pedagogy anticipated the current proliferation of extra-institutional education initiatives

Marketing Mutuality: Boundary Spanning Approaches to Marketing Strategy

This dissertation, arranged in three essays, is grounded firmly in the crossroads of sociology and marketing. Theories of the former inform phenomena of the latter. In particular, the sociological theory of the gift and the rich tradition of anti-utilitarian social science inform contemporary debate regarding the rise of the sharing economy and its much-heralded potential to alter the landscape of the market. Through an ethnography of brand and retail service settings in the particular context of American craft beer festivals, the concept of mutuality is used to provide a line of demarcation between effective and ineffective forms of the sharing economy. The first essay is a conceptual treatment of the theory of the gift and its applicability to modern marketing strategy. The second essay delves into the aforementioned ethnographic data to derive insights for managers and theoreticians on the benefits of effective participation in the sharing economy. The third essay provides a practical take on the abstract and at times esoteric concepts underlying the theory to bolster the utility of the findings for practitioners. Throughout the essay, the efficacy of mutuality and gift theory for resolving tensions and simplifying conundrums in the relevant literature is discussed in detail

Five Principles for Vertical Merger Enforcement Policy

There seems to be consensus that the Department of Justice’s 1984 Vertical Merger Guidelines do not reflect either modern theoretical and empirical economic analysis or current agency enforcement policy. Yet widely divergent views of preferred enforcement policies have been expressed among agency enforcers and commentators. Based on our review of the relevant economic literature and our experience analyzing vertical mergers, we recommend that the enforcement agencies adopt five principles: (i) The agencies should consider and investigate the full range of potential anticompetitive harms when evaluating vertical mergers; (ii) The agencies should decline to presume that vertical mergers benefit competition on balance in the oligopoly markets that typically prompt agency review, nor set a higher evidentiary standard based on such a presumption; (iii) The agencies should evaluate claimed efficiencies resulting from vertical mergers as carefully and critically as they evaluate claimed efficiencies resulting from horizontal mergers, and require the merging parties to show that the efficiencies are verifiable, merger-specific and sufficient to reverse the potential anticompetitive effects; (iv) The agencies should decline to adopt a safe harbor for vertical mergers, even if rebuttable, except perhaps when both firms compete in unconcentrated markets; (v) The agencies should consider adopting rebuttable anticompetitive presumptions that a vertical merger harms competition when certain factual predicates are satisfied. We do not intend these presumptions to describe all the ways by which vertical mergers can harm competition, so the agencies should continue to investigate vertical mergers that raise concerns about input and customer foreclosure, loss of a disruptive or maverick firm, evasion of rate regulation or other threats to competition, even if the specific factual predicates of the presumptions are not satisfied

Poems

Poems include: Days , by Martha Rose Scott and Blemish , by Louise Garrigu